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John L. Allen Jr. The ISIS-destroyed bell tower at the Church of Behnam and Sara in Qaraqosh, Iraq. (Credit: Crux/John Allen.) QARAQOSH, Iraq – Over the centuries, the Middle East has always been a land where expectations tend to experience especially tough collisions with reality, so it probably…
Read moreThe Chaldean Community Foundation anticipates beginning construction of a 15,600-square-foot addition to its existing site on 15 Mile Road in Sterling Heights later this summer or in early fall. MITCH HOTTS — THE MACOMB DAILY By Mitch Hotts, The Macomb Daily…
Read moreA group of Christians from Baghdad who visited the ruins of the Church of Kokheh, located 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the Iraqi capital, were spontaneously invited by the local Muslim community for lunch after their tour, Al-Monitor reported. The historical Church of Kokheh is one of the early points of departure of Christianity…
Read moreKarzan Sulaivany Karzan Sulaivany | Display of coexistence in Kurdistan as Christians host Ramadan dinner at Church A Church in the Kurdistan Region’s Barzan area. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) Kurdistan Christians Muslims Ramadan…
Read moreJohn L. Allen Jr. and Ines San Martin Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq. (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.) ERBIL, Iraq – Officially speaking, anyway, there’s no index of the moral heroes of Catholicism in our time. There would be plenty of candidates, clergy and religious lay…
Read moreBy Benedict Kiely Iraqi Christians hold Palm Sunday services in Qaraqosh for the first time after ISIS was expelled from the city, April 9, 2017. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters) Those in Iraq who struggle to restore their ancient homes now that ISIS has been expelled express bitterness about an administration that promised them much.…
Read moreSaad Salloum Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr walks to cast his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election, Najaf, Iraq, May 12, 2018. In a bold move, Iraq’s Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr spoke in favor of the return of the Jews who were evicted from the country half a century ago. Sadr responded…
Read moreOmar Mohammed, a young historian from the Iraqi city of Mosul, has founded a platform to document the crimes committed by “Islamic State.” Has Mosul Eye made a difference? Logo Mosul Eye (Omar Mohammed)…
Read moreBy Benedict Kiely Iraqi Christians hold Palm Sunday services in Qaraqosh for the first time after ISIS was expelled from the city, April 9, 2017. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters) Those in Iraq who struggle to restore their ancient homes now that ISIS has been expelled express bitterness about an administration that promised them much.…
Read moreThe Chaldean Community Foundation anticipates beginning construction of a 15,600-square-foot addition to its existing site on 15 Mile Road in Sterling Heights later this summer or in early fall. MITCH HOTTS — THE MACOMB DAILY By Mitch Hotts, The Macomb Daily…
Read moreBy Samuel Smith , CP Reporter | (Photo: Screenshot, CSPAN)Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the annual Faith & Freedom Coalition Road to Majority conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on June 9, 2018.…
Read moreBy Jordan Grantham, Jessy Harfouch and Fr Maroun Moussa of Voice of Charity – Australia. Photo: Diocese of Parramatta After two months off air for extensive renovations, Voice of Charity – Australia, the only Arabic language Christian radio station in Australia, went back on the air on 3 April 2018.…
Read moreMaronite Patriarch Beshara Rai is set to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday afternoon, to discuss Lebanon’s relationship with France and other topics of interest to both nations. Rai, who departed Lebanon for France Monday morning, is scheduled to meet Macron…
Read moreIraqi Christians attend a mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Persecuted Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities have not received aid from the…
Read moreBy George Russell | Fox News In a statement received by Fox News, Mike Pence’s office declared that both the Trump administration and the vice president himself “will not tolerate bureaucratic delays in implementing the administration’s vision to deliver the assistance we promised to the people we pledged to help.” (Reuters )…
Read moreSaad Salloum A photo of the Church of Kokheh, built by Saint Mari in the first century, taken in 1932. BAGHDAD — A group of Christians from Baghdad who visited the ruins of the Church of Kokheh, located 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the Iraqi capital, were…
Read moreWrecked cars line a bombed-out street in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, May 26. Almost none of the 3,000 Iraqi Christian families that lived in the city before it was occupied by ISIS have returned since it was liberated. (Edward Pentin) Speaking to the Register, the Chaldean Catholic leader blamed bureaucratic inaction for…
Read moreIraqi Christians attend a mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh / Getty Images BY: Jeffrey Cimmino Persecuted Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities have not received aid from the…
Read moreIn October he said help would be on the way. So where is it? Iraqi Yazidis outside a temple near Dohuk, Iraq, April 17. Photo: safin hamed/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images By Robert McFarlane and Chris Smith…
Read moreDoreen Abi Raad CATHOLIC_NEWS_SERVICE Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad, Iraq, celebrates a liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 4, 2013, file photo. Sako was one of 14 new cardinals named by the pope May 20. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)…
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